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Draghi protests as Slovenian police raids central bank

Slovenian police on Wednesday raided the premises of the country's central bank and seized confidential information as part of a pre-criminal investigation into bailouts of the country’s banks by the state in 2013. The raid prompted protests from European Central Bank president Mario Draghi in Frankfurt, who said the seizure of information on computer hardware used by the bank’s governor and deputy governor was “unlawful" and threatened legal action.

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